Saints making a push to sign Cooper Kupp [Cooper Kupp signs with Seahawks to a 3-year, $45 million deal]

[Stalwart385]

It will definitely be negative before any restructurings. There will not be enough roll over to cover the deficit. Unless Carr has a great year, he will likely provide pretty significant cap space once released but that will likely be after June 1. Plenty of restructure potential, but will need some to get compliant again next year.

Without Young's contract we have about 42 mil between 2025 and 2026. That doesn't include Jordan's reported pay cut or Taysom if he does. Young uses up around 22-27 mil over that time, depending on voids. Have to subtract this year draft class (~5mil). So you are in the positive right now.

I assume they cut Carr and Godcheaux. I don't think they need to wait till June 1st to cut Carr. Freeing all that money that late in FA can be kinda pointless. Maybe they do but they have plenty of options regardless.

Pretty common for the cap limit to go higher than the OTC estimate as well.

Now we sign Kupp and Becton and things change. But we're still perfectly fine. It'll be the most room we've had to maneuver in a very long time.

Edit: My apologies Reid is not in there. I guess he'll count ~15 mil over the next two years.

 

[Rexman100]

This is your perception of who should be replaced. But what if the team actually wants to be locked into more than 2 or 3?

yea, it is. But isnt this the biggest issue? Who would be your guys thats on the team, starting, that is only there due to salary cap management.? (i admit my estimate is on the high side) Just curious what others think.

 

[Rexman100]

Kupp also didn’t have Derek I like to throw it out of bounds Carr throwing to him either. I love the idea of Kupp on the team. I hate the idea of DC throwing to him.

you're straight up wrong about Carr. Carr is good QB. Show me what makes him a bad QB? Give an on the field example. Repeating what someone else says like Matt Masona is flawed because he's trolling on purpose, which makes his POV more flawed. (Matt is just an example)

 

[WhoDat?DrewDat]

maybe, but have you considered the age and cap % tied to the WR position? I think those are important things to consider when A adding players and B deciding what to spend on them.

How is this at all relevant to signing an old WR past his prime that's injury prone?

 

[Custumz97]

you're straight up wrong about Carr. Carr is good QB. Show me what makes him a bad QB? Give an on the field example. Repeating what someone else says like Matt Masona is flawed because he's trolling on purpose, which makes his POV more flawed. (Matt is just an example)

Ask Olave what he thinks….

 

[WhoDat?DrewDat]

Ask Olave what he thinks….

Olave probably doesn't remember

 

[Snakehead]

Ask Olave what he thinks….

Don't care what Olave thinks. He should work on being more durable and not get so many concussions. If he can't fix that, he needs to retire.

 

[Custumz97]

Olave probably doesn't remember

Don't care what Olave thinks. He should work on being more durable and not get so many concussions. If he can't fix that, he needs to retire.

And Carr should stop putting his receivers on IR. Maybe he should learn how to throw receivers away from the hits. Maybe Carr is so good that he should win a playoff game. I get you’re a Carr apologist and all so maybe you should meet him at Chipotle and yall can reminisce about how great of a QB he is.

 

[MikeInHaaammond]

Unserious franchise. What a joke.

I wish you would elaborate.

 

[schuetter]

Don't care what Olave thinks. He should work on being more durable and not get so many concussions. If he can't fix that, he needs to retire.

Yeah! He needs to tell his brain to stop doing that!

 

[Snakehead]

Yeah! He needs to tell his brain to stop doing that!

His next concussion will be his 6th. He needs to do something.

 

[WhoDat?DrewDat]

And Carr should stop putting his receivers on IR. Maybe he should learn how to throw receivers away from the hits. Maybe Carr is so good that he should win a playoff game. I get you’re a Carr apologist and all so maybe you should meet him at Chipotle and yall can reminisce about how great of a QB he is.

Both of y'all are wrong lol.

Carr isn't a great QB and he's not terrible either.

Olave also needs to learn how to take hits. If you're going over the middle in the NFL you're gonna get smacked. If his frame is too small to protect himself he needs to retire.

 

[schuetter]

His next concussion will be his 6th. He needs to do something.

The only thing he can do is wear the special needs helmet bubble or retire. You can't make your head/brain less susceptible to repeat traumatic injury after initial injury.

I was joshin... but I am in the camp that he and Tua should call it quits. They're both sadly and tragically going to pay for this later.

 

[Snakehead]

The only thing he can do is where the special needs helmet bubble or retire. You can't make your head/brain less susceptible to repeat traumatic injury after initial injury.

I was joshin... but I am in the camp that he and Tua should call it quits. They're both sadly and tragically going to pay for this later.

We've already seen the impact of one player dying on the field recently, but he was revived. Olave with his concussion issues is a disaster waiting to happen. He's got the concussions from being hit and from hitting the ground so he needs to stop getting hit, but that's hard to do in tackle football. I like that he said he was going to work on strengthening his neck, that should help with some of the whiplash when he smacks his head on the ground. I think he should put on about 10-15lbs of muscle as well. Even if he loses a step, he'd be more durable and since he's a precise route runner and tactician he'd be lethal at 205lbs.

He could go on and never have another concussion again, but I wouldn't take that bet.